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A good source is one that is credible and has all of the facts backing it up. The most important thing i have taken away from learning about checking sources is that the bias of the writer means a lot. This knowledge makes me look deeper to who is actually writing the text and makes me look more carefully at the meaning behind words. This information will keep me looking at the source of where certain source’s sources are coming from.

The main idea of my groups article was focused on saving the planet and how we can use the ocean to help do so. It explains lots of key evidence like using wind farms offshore and using generators off currents. Lots of things could be explained further like the farms for seaweed and oysters. The author may have just said what they did thinking everyone knew what they were talking about. I think the offshore wind farms and generators on the currents could be useful to us so I’m glad the author provided good information on those. A counter argument for this would be that most of the solutions mentioned are not very cost effective. But since it is saving the planet it should not matter.

In my article the author included only one quote, “blue carbon”. They used this to explain a phenomenon with a certain type of pollution. I feel as if she did not go over the quote very well, I feel as if she wanted to start her own movement from her own ideas and words. For this reason she is not seen quoting anything but phases throughout the entire article. 

Rhetoric is the way we can use writing to persuade an audience into thinking what the writer wants them to. The word itself has a bad connotation to me. My main reason is that the media uses it to skew different stories and push their narrative to the public. This type of speaking and writing has caused a lot of chaos and many don't even realize. 

The last time I had to peer review a paper was close to a year ago on my senior paper. The feedback I got was mostly the same but revolved around being too wordy or having run on sentences. These suggestions were very helpful to me especially the ones about being too wordy. I felt as if lots of the comments i had were just to het a grade on the peer review assignment so they were really bland. Such as “looks good” or “Maybe check grammar". I feel like the peer review is good but in moderation, If there is pressure such as a grade put on the review itself it will suffer, but if it is freely open to conversation it will prosper.

Mr. Blackburn was probably my favorite writing teacher that I've ever had. He had this way of teaching that showed what you needed to know and nothing extra and unnecessary. He gave me advice on how to write the best MLA formatted papers and how to make them presentable. This information was very useful in my writing journey. Now that i look back on it and compare that class to my classes now, He was the closest to a college professor than any other teacher.

Honestly on my first day of English class in high school I felt as if I wasn't exactly ready for the amount of reading that the teacher was about to unload on me and my classmates.it was honestly a little nerve racking having to read a paragraph from a textbook out loud to my class back then, but then you blink twice and you’ve gone forward 4 years and now you’re in your last day of your English IV class and you somewhat like to write about topics you’re interested in. From what I've learned from the last 4 years I believe the purpose of reading and writing serve the purpose of having a kind of eternal voice that you can go back and look at, some of the things that are written serve little to no purpose and some are the literal Declaration Of Independence.